[manusachi]

Do you know what other ecosystem comes closest to the existing in Python? I've heard good things about Julia.

13 years ago when I was trying to explore the field R seemed to be the most popular, but looks like not anymore. (I didn't get into the field, and do just a regular SWE, so I'm not aware of the trends).

There is also a lot of development in Elixir ecosystem around the subject [1].

[1](https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-ml-s1-2024-mlir-arrow-instruc...)

[posix_monad]

I don't think the ML community has an appetite for learning a different language.

There are Microsoft-backed F# bindings for Spark and Torch, but no one seems interested. And this is despite a pretty compelling proposition of lightweight syntax, strong typing, script-ability and great performance.

The answer will probably be JavaScript.

Everyone already knows the language - all that's missing is operator overloading and a few key bindings.

[soulbadguy]

> There are Microsoft-backed F# bindings for Spark and Torch > this is despite a pretty compelling proposition of lightweight syntax, strong typing, script-ability and great performance.

For exactly the reasons your mentioned, i feel like F# would have been the perfect match for both MLE/ETL(spark pipeline) work and some of the deep learning/graph modelisation such as pytorch. Saddly, even from MSFT, the investment in F# as dried up